The Real Reason China Is 5x Richer Than India

中国人均收入是印度五倍的真正原因

In 1990, the average Indian earned more than the average Chinese. Today, the average Chinese earns about five times as much. So what did China do that India didn't?

1990年，印度人的平均收入高于中国人。如今，中国人的平均收入大约是印度人的五倍。那么中国做到了哪些印度没做到的事？

印度学者说中国眼红印度高速增长，这套说法站不住脚。按IMF 2026年的数据，中国名义GDP约20.85万亿美元，印度约4.15万亿美元，中国总量约是印度5倍，人均分别约14874美元和2813美元，同样超5倍。印度增速确实更快，IMF预计2026年实际增长约6.4%至6.5%，但快不等于马上追上

2026年8月印度记者帕拉维谈中印对比很直白，上世纪90年代初两国人均还接近，如今中国人均超印度5倍多。把今天中印当同一水平对标，起点就错了。另外，印度教授依耶发中国城市视频，看到街道、公交和共享单车秩序后，感觉印度落后太大。

以下是印度网友的评论：

nmew6926
China was subjected to 22 years of US led embargo 1950-1972. This is an important story which is conveniently ignored by Western media

1950至1972年，美国对新中国实施长达22年的封锁。这段历史，被西方媒体有意避开不提。

 

RousseauAnahDave
China is actually 10 times richer..
China deflates her gdp while India inflates it ..

中国其实比印度富裕十倍。

中国会压低GDP统计数值，印度却抬高自家GDP数据。

 

akashyadav4094
see IMF data for india as well you will find out India's future rise

你也去看看国际货币基金组织关于印度的数据，就能看到印度未来的增长潜力。

KittyCat-qg4vd
keep dreaming. India could not do it in the last 78 years. What make u think you can

做梦吧。过去78年印度都没能崛起，凭什么觉得以后就行？

 

Sanca-The-One
Fantasy comments get a lot of upvoters. People like the China fairytale here

不切实际的评论反倒很多人点赞。这里不少人愿意相信中国的美好童话。

 

Maratha382
They have 200 trillion dollars gdp?

他们说中国GDP有200万亿美元？

 

edhiepitz
in Value maybe, but not in GDP

按资产总值算或许有可能，但GDP不是这个数。

Maratha382
@edhiepitz so not GDP then? That guy said China has 10 times the GDP

这不是GDP？有人说中国GDP是印度的十倍。

edhiepitz
@Maratha382 maybe don't take YT comment or other sosmed platform Comments too seriously

社交平台上的评论，别太当真。

Maratha382
@edhiepitz of course i’m not taking him seriously. I want to know whether he was on some substance before he wrote that comment.

我当然没当真。我就是好奇，他发这条评论的时候是不是嗑药了。

 

yanyeetan1727
@Maratha382 lol India's GDP is not 20T

哈哈，印度GDP根本没有20万亿。

Maratha382
@yanyeetan1727 China’s GDP is not 10 times India’s

中国GDP也不是印度的十倍。

KittyCat-qg4vd
@yanyeetan1727 India real GDP is only 2.5 trillion dollars. And that is generous.

印度实际GDP也就2.5万亿美元，这还是往高了估。

 

edhiepitz
According to GDP maybe 5x richer, but according to other criteria such as human development index, structure and infrastructure build, R&D towards new innovation, China is at least 30-40X richer

单看GDP，中国大概是印度的五倍。但如果看人类发展指数、产业结构、基建、创新研发这些指标，中国至少是印度的三四十倍。

 

Sanca-The-One
Meanwhile in India the extremely poor population dropped from 27 to 2.6 % according to the World Bank. You people are delusional.

世界银行数据显示，印度极端贫困人口占比从27%降到2.6%。你们都活在幻想里。

 

Sanca-The-One
@hjx-k3g I'm sorry troll, but these are facts and real numbers. And keep enjoying Bollywood

不好意思，你别抬杠，这些都是实打实的数据。你继续看宝莱坞去吧。

 

noobboss9871
india population boom is actually the biggest weakness

印度人口暴涨，其实是它最大的短板。

 

KittyCat-qg4vd
Not a boom. It is an uncontrollable population explosion.

这不叫增长，这是失控的人口爆炸。

 

bhagwanbhagchandani5627
China has same biggest population but Theirs trade is surplus 2 Trillion dollar per year and it's for two years in the row ! India for 80 years since independence Deficit !! China are richest stronger and powerful But India remains poorest, weakest and totally failed

中国人口规模同样庞大，但是连续两年每年贸易顺差2万亿美元！印度独立80年一直是贸易逆差！中国富裕、强大，印度却一直贫穷、弱小，完全失败。

 

lionrock2023
The real reason? India wants to be loved by the west. And they succeeded kind of

真正原因是什么？印度想要获得西方的好感，而且差不多做到了。

 

Leoq-zk6wt
India is great, if you like India, please enjoy your life there. I'm Chinese, I like my life here in China, you can say whatever the hell you want, let's enjoy yours while I enjoy mine.

印度很好，如果你喜欢印度，就在那里好好生活。我是中国人，我喜欢在中国的日子。你想说什么随便，我们各自过好自己的生活。

 

i_am_amitchavan
No, it's not possible to beat China. Forget it.

想超过中国是不可能的，别想了。

 

Tietietu
Indian has never been unifed before the british and the british used the chinese emperor civil exam to rule the subcontinent of indian. The british language and the british constitution unifed indian. Not to mention they are different from east asian. Japan rich, south korea, Singapore, Vietnam, china and soon north korea. They belong to the same family

在英国人到来之前，印度从来没有统一过。英国人借鉴中国古代科举制度管理印度次大陆。是英语和英国的宪法把印度捏合在一起。而且印度和东亚民族本身就不一样。日本、韩国、新加坡、越南、中国都发展起来了，朝鲜很快也会跟上，它们属于同一个发展圈层。

 

KittyCat-qg4vd
India is not unified. India is a collection of individual states that hate each other. India will disintegrate in the next major crisis.

印度算不上统一国家，就是一堆互相敌视的邦拼凑起来的。下一次重大危机来临，印度就会分裂。

 

akashyadav4094
Look who is preaching now china was a disaster during qing dynasty see the history

还轮到你来说教了？清朝时期的中国一团糟，去看看历史。

 

 

Tietietu
@akashyadav4094 preaching? You mean i told the facts, guess you dont know what mandate of heaven means? I wil tell you another secret. Indian dont have their own nukes you couldn't build your own nukes.

说教？我说的是事实。估计你都不知道天命是什么意思。再跟你说个事，印度的核武器不是自研的，你们造不出自己的核弹。

 

AverageBossBeLike
Wrong. Was United (true, not that British Raj big) in the year 1600. BTW, there was so many people, uniting was (even partially) so remarkable. It's like different cultures of Europea united into one.

不对。1600年的时候印度就实现过统一，当然版图比不上英属印度。当时人口众多，就算只是局部统一，也非常了不起，就好比欧洲诸多不同文化合并成一个整体。

Tietietu
@AverageBossBeLike so in the yeas 1600, how did your emperor unifed subcontinent of indian? Which language did he unifed the continent? Which measurement? What kind of coin?

 那我问你，1600年是哪位君主统一了印度次大陆？用什么语言来治理？统一的度量衡是什么？流通哪种货币？

 

MyMac-d7m
Each state in India has 27 enemies. Each state actively tries to destroy the other states. That's the real reason.

印度每个邦都有不少敌对邦，各个邦都在想方设法打压别的邦。这才是根本原因。

 

bitcoinvester
India is the world’s most prolific planner. Once a plan is finalized, they immediately begin crafting the next one—all while inviting Narendra Modi to preside over the ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Modi is, in fact, the greatest ribbon-cutter in history; he spends more than 200 days out of every year officiating such events. Meanwhile, politicians take ten-day holidays to celebrate, followed by the dispatch of dozens of delegations across the globe to tout these plans, insisting to the entire world that they are flawless—the greatest plans ever conceived. As for how these plans might actually be executed? Well, that’s simply not part of the plan.

印度是全世界最爱做规划的国家。一个规划刚敲定，马上就开始做下一个，还总邀请莫迪来剪彩。莫迪简直是史上“剪彩之王”，一年有两百多天都在参加剪彩活动。政客们放假十天庆祝，再派出几十个代表团奔赴全球到处宣传，向全世界吹嘘这些方案完美无缺，是史上最好的规划。至于方案到底怎么落地执行？压根不在他们的考虑范围内。

 

liberto7600
india is in the league with bangladesh and pakistan, china is in another upper league

印度和孟加拉、巴基斯坦属于同一梯队，中国在更高的层级。

 

yoingen
Throughout its history, India has been characterized by persistent fragmentation, a weak center, and a quasi-federal structure; it has never developed an effective, centralized, or unified government. In truth, there is no historical precedent for managing a country of such vast scale.

历史上印度长期四分五裂，中央权力薄弱，属于准联邦结构，从来没有形成高效的中央统一政府。事实上，这么大的国土，他们也没有相应的治理历史经验。

 

1Query1
Nope. That choice was made by the West.

不是这样的，这套制度是西方强加给印度的。

 

KittyCat-qg4vd
It is not a choice. The British rules India for 200 years. The indians lived to serve to British. Of course, they copied the behavior and the politican system of their master. They don't know any other way.

这根本不是自主选择。英国统治印度两百年，印度人长期服务英国人，自然照搬宗主国的行事方式和政治制度，他们不知道还有别的路子。

 

ianzhou-b8p
once you have seen the fully automated factory in china, you will know, the model of cheap labor to attract manufactuing which china has used in the 90s will not work again in india. india has missed numerious historic window of development due to its lack of efficiency and long term development commitment.

只要看过中国的全自动化工厂你就明白，中国九十年代靠廉价劳动力吸引制造业的模式，放到印度行不通。印度效率低、缺少长期发展规划，已经错过好几次发展机遇。

 

AAAAAA-tj1nq
China is manufacturing 5nm chips while india is stuck at 90nm

中国已经能生产5纳米芯片，印度还停留在90纳米。

 

AugustZhao-t2o
India and China are not about political systems ; it is about uneven income distribution. It has been India's problem in the past, and it will remain the same problem for India now.

中印差距不在于制度，核心是收入分配不均。这是印度长期存在的老问题，到现在也没变。

 

tedchandran
We Indians are called the 3rd bro in the Superpower trio. Jai Hind

我们印度人被称作超级大国三巨头里的三哥。印度万岁。